This Website / Blog is being discontinued. I leave it at this place on the web as a reference, for archival purposes. Maybe you have come here through an old link.

The Meeting Point was an international platform for the practice of interdisciplinary instant composing, operating from Amsterdam, but in it's time also connected to artists in Helsinki, Berlin, Barcelona and Milan.Improvised performance and instant composing seen as a disicpline in its own right, supporting interdisciplinary exchange, artistic production and social communication.

It all started with the Meeting Point sessions at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam, which are now continued under the name 'Monday Match'.

On this blog you can find the posts until August 2010, relating to the events that happened in Amsterdam and around (The Netherlands).

FOR ANY CURRENT ACTIVITIES:

The Carpet CollectiveThis is a new platform for interdisciplinary instant composition in Amsterdam, facilitated by Thomas Johannsen: Find them here: instantcomposition.wordpress.comWe hold weekly research sessions where the performance professionals from various disciplines lead the work in turns. Sessions are set up to (1) train and (2) discover and define work methods and vocabulary that work for any discipline.

The Monday Match is the current regular spot for music/dance improvisation (continuing the concept of The Meeting Point) every first Monday of the month in the Bimhuis, Amsterdam: www.bimhuis.nl

The Genetic Choir (instant vocal composition) has also now his own website. You can find it here: www.genetic-choir.org

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

The Meeting Point Lab at the Bimhuis

The Meeting Point was founded by Valeria Primost and Marcos Baggiani in June 2004 at the Bimhuis Amsterdam.

It was proposed as a music and dance improvisation lab, because of their own need to practice the discipline of improvised performance on stage.For two years, every first Monday of the month, the "Meeting Point Lab" was organised in the Bimhuis and it became a fixed point in the agenda of both instant composition practitioners and their audience in Amsterdam.

While gathering a community in Amsterdam by performing and researching the lab in the Bimhuis, artists from other cities started using the same format to collaborate with their own city's communities to further develop their approaches to the discipline and to bring the material to a wider audience. See our main site for more information about the other cities.

To this date, the first Monday of the month in the Bimhuis in Amsterdam is still an evening organised in the spirit of the Lab. The programming is now done by the Bimhuis themselves and it is called the "Monday Match".The Meeting Point Lab concept of two curators from the disciplines dance and music who invite a unique set of performers to improvise together has not changed and it is still a great place to go every month. Entrance is free. For more information see www.bimhuis.nl

Meeting Point Lab Performancesat the Bimhuis and abroad2004-2006

2006

October 20th till November 5th 2006, The Meeting Point in Caracas and San Felipe, VenezuelaWorkshops for the Instituto Universitario de Danza de Caracas and the Regional Dance Academy of San Felipe. Performance at Chacao Theatre in the context of the "I Encuentro de Danza Universitaria - Artes Integrales". Urban intervention with students at Estacion Parque del Este, in the context of the project "Escenario Urbano", for the recuperation of public spaces